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MASSACRE IN MONTEVERDE:
Minister Ramos Defends His Actions
While some Legislative Deputies
are calling for the resignation of Ministro de Seguridad Pública,
Rogelio Ramos, authorities from the Organismo de Investigación Judicial
(OIJ) and the Fuerza Publica are calling the police operation in
Monteverde a success.
Ramos was interviewed on television channel 6 last night and was asked
what he thought of the Deputy's call, specifically comparing the
situation in Monteverde to that of the Chilean Embassy situation in San
José last year, when a member of the Fuerza Publica took several
employees of the embassy hostage and killed three, after killing
himself.
Ramos was clear that the decision to storm the building was made by a
committee that included members of the various police organization and
the president Abel Pacheco and that the operation resulted in the
release of 27 hostages that had been held for more than 20 hours.
The Minister said that the assailant had threatened to kill the hostages
if his demands weren't met and used distraction methods moments before
storming the bank to free the remaining hostages.
Minister Ramos told his interviewer that the Chilean embassy case and
the what happened in Monteverde are two different situations that cannot
be related. The men attempting to rob the Banco Nacional in Santa Elena
de Monteverde were violent individuals who had a long history of violent
acts and came in shooting, that's when all of the victims inside the
bank were killed.
Asked why former presidents Miguel Angel Rodríguez and Rafael Angel
Calderón were taken away in handcuffs and moved around in a "perrera" -
the name for the police wagon - while the assailant in Monteverde was
shown taken in to court in the backseat of a pickup truck, the Minister
responded that the decision in the former president's case was that of
Judicial officials , who decided to handle the former presidents in that
manner and not his.
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